On 6/12/13 7:03 AM, Tudor Popescu wrote:

Sorry Doug, wasn't sure whether you'd seen my last reply to this..

On 6 Jun 2013 21:37, "Tudor Popescu" <tud...@gmail.com <mailto:tud...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    Thanks Doug,



            So if I want to use the study-specific "average" subject
            surface with mri_surf2surf, rather than the generic
            "fsaverage" one, how can this be done given that the
            required ls.white file only exists in the latter but not
            in the former? Can I just rename (or duplicate) ls.white
            into ls.white_avg?

        You can copy it or create a symbolic link.

    So it is OK to copy the required lh.white file from the generic
    average subject "fsaverage" and apply mri_surf2surf upon the
    study-specific average subject ("average")? It still seems to me
    that "average" should have its own (different) lh.white...

Yes it should. Did make_average_subject not create it?



            Shouldn't the input to mri_glmfit be the output of
            mri_surf2surf? In the group tutorial, the former is
            "lh.gender_age.thickness.10.mgh" while the latter is
            "lh.gender_age.thickness.10B.mgh". Or should it just be
            the unsmoothed output of mris_preproc?

        Yes, I can't remember why I put the "B" there, maybe to keep
        people from overwriting  lh.gender_age.thickness.10.mgh during
        the tutorial and having to wait the 10min or so for it to get
        recreated.

    But if all these commands transform the same file (output of
    mris_preproc becomes input of mri_surf2surf, which then feeds into
    mri_glmfit), then why is it still necessary to keep intact the
    original lh.gender_age.thickness.10.mgh, when all you need for the
    group analysis is the mri_surf2surf'd version?

Sorry, I'm lost here. What are the names of the files?



            Assuming the label files (corresponding to my ROI, and
            extracted from the Destrieux atlas) are different for each
            subject, and given mri_glmfit is called just once, for all
            subjects, which label file (corresponding to what subject)
            should I point it to?

        You need to create the label in the average subject. There is
        a Destrieux atlas there.

    Again, by "average subject" do you mean here the generic one
    (fsaverage) or the study-specific one (average)? Should the former
    be used at any point of a group analysis, if the latter exists?

If you are doing your group analysis on a custom average, then do not use fsaverage at any point.
doug



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